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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
.Dt MPATH 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mpath
.Nd SCSI multipath
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "emc* at scsibus?"
.Cd "hds* at scsibus?"
.Cd "rdac* at scsibus?"
.Cd "sym* at scsibus?"
.Pp
.Cd "mpath0 at root"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
provides access, I/O multiplexing, and failover support to SCSI
logical units that can have multiple physical connections to the
system.
It uses connections presented by path drivers, for example
.Xr sym 4 ,
as backends to a single device attached to its own
.Xr scsibus 4 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ioctl 2 ,
.Xr emc 4 ,
.Xr hds 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr rdac 4 ,
.Xr scsi 4 ,
.Xr sym 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 4.7 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An David Gwynne Aq Mt dlg@openbsd.org .
